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Thread #3369   Message #16827
Posted By: Bruce O.
28-Nov-97 - 02:08 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Roslyn Castle
Subject: RE: Roslyn Castle
The dissolution of the Knights Templar got into full swing on Oct. 13, 1307 with the arrest of the leader, Jaques de Molay and sixty of his followers, in Paris. de Molay and others were burnt on Mar. 14, 1314, after recanting their previous confessions. In England the Templars were arrested on Jan 10, 1308. I have a quite recent book that argues that survivors resurfaced in a different guise as the Freemasons in Scotland. There are many works dealing with the dissolution of the Templars, however, and many variant interpretations of the facts. See Templars in Encyclopedia Britannica for more particulars of the facts.

In any case there are rather few songs of the early 14th century known on any subject, in England and Scotland at any rate, and I have seen none relating to Templars.

P.S. jst_clair. Any suggestion of what 'The House of Glams" refers to?